Quote

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Albert Einstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
Inventor
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Patent Examiner
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
Professor
Science Writer
Ulm alb-Donau
Einstein
A. Einstein
Persons
Experiment
Person
Believes
Made
Experiments
Something
Except
Believe
Nobody
Theory
Everybody
Science

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
Albert Einstein
Image
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Albert Einstein
Image
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.
Albert Einstein
Image
It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.
Albert Einstein
Image
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
Albert Einstein
Image
Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
Albert Einstein
Image
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.
Albert Einstein
Image
No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
Albert Einstein
Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.
Albert Einstein
Image
The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.
Albert Einstein
Image
Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?
Albert Einstein
Image
I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.
Albert Einstein
Image
There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.
Albert Einstein
Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Albert Einstein
Image
Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.
Albert Einstein
Image
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Albert Einstein
Image
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
Image
External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.
Albert Einstein
Image
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.
Albert Einstein
Image
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
Albert Einstein